SOS: Serious Overload of Series discussion

I'm looking for a shifter book, which should be easy, with over 1100 shifter books on my unread shelf. But so many of them are novella length, and I'm trying to find one I feel like reading that's 200+ pages. *sigh ~ first world problems*

Sandra wrote: "I'm looking for a shifter book, which should be easy, with over 1100 shifter books on my unread shelf. But so many of them are novella length, and I'm trying to find one I feel like reading that's ..."

Lol, I had the a similar issue. I try not to start too many series during bingo but sometimes you can't avoid it. Maybe you can look at best of list and maybe you will remember a series that you started and forgot about?

Thanks for your review Sandra, I've requested our motocycle club stamp.

Shelves still opened as of now, notify me if I made a mistake.

Shelf #2: Favorites 3/4

Laura: City of Fallen Angels by Cassandra Clare
Linda C: These Broken Stars by Amie Kaufman, 5✮, 26/09/2018, Review
Sandra: Secrets in Death by J.D. Robb, 4✮, 25/09/2018, Review
Valerie: Vampires Like It Hot by Lynsay Sands, 3✮, 24/09/2018, Review


Shelf #3: Own it 4/4 Stamp requested

Laura: Outlander by Diana Gabaldon, 5✮, 30/10/2018, Review
Linda C: So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish by Douglas Adams, 3✮, 03/10/2018, Review
Sandra: Eleventh Grave in Moonlight by Darynda Jones, 5✮, 03/10/2018, Review
Valerie: Iron and Magic by Ilona Andrews, 4.5✮, 03/10/2018, Review


Shelf #7: Shifters 1/4

Laura: Caressed by Ice by Nalini Singh
Linda C:Bone Crossed by Patricia Briggs , 5✮, 25/10/2018, Review
Sandra: Dead Man Talking by Jana Deleon
Valerie: Phoenix Unbound by Grace Draven

CONGRATULATIONS, Cereal Killers!
You now have an updated BINGO card with a stamp on 'motorcycle club'. 

[Your updated BINGO card can be viewed on page 1]

Good Job!! :D

Thanks Missy Steph :)

Shelf #3: Own it
Book: Outlander
Finished: 30.10
Rate: 5 Stars
Review: This was so long read, but I loved every page. I love the story line and the characters in the book. It has action in it and epic love story. I'm sad the first book is over and I can't wait to see what happens next with Claire and James. They have come through so much in the first book, but they still haven't found a safe place to be together.

@Laura: thanks for your review, off to request our stamp!

@Sandra: Have you decided what to read for your shifter shelf?

Sorry Val, it'll probably be the paperback has 288 pgs.

I'm wrestling with tax at the moment, so not what I want to be doing :(

I'm working on my Favorites book, but once again I forgot I don't like this series :'(

Laura wrote: "I'm working on my Favorites book, but once again I forgot I don't like this series :'("

lol, especially following the outlander series...it’s hard to measure up.

Well, I've just now finished mine & hubby's taxes (today was the last day. LOL) And I can see from my comment earlier that was 12 hrs ago, though I'd started before then. That time included my email provider being offline for several hours, and I needed info that I couldn't get to. *sigh* They are using a new system and its horrible!!!!

Rant over. I promise to read my shifter book asap tomorrow.

Shelf #8 ~ 31/10/18:Dragon
DIRECT LINK - https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...

I'll probably read the latest Stormwalker book Can't believe it ~ its not on the list :(

I'll have to find something else.

Take 2: Heard good things of this series.

OR maybe I should read the next World of the Lupi book?

I'll let you know Val as soon as I decide.

I find more book with dragons plural than single tag....but those are the rules. I’ll put tentatively for now.

I don’t know what to read. I’ve finished my shifter book, just need to write the review.

Yes, my shelf is labelled Dragons *sigh*

Selection Post - Shelf #8 ~ Dragon

Book: Legend of the Highland Dragon
Author: Isabel Cooper
Pages: 352
How it Fits: #286 on the list

Shelf #8 ~ Dragon: I'll be reading

Shelves still opened as of now:

Shelf #2: Favorites 3/4

Laura: City of Fallen Angels by Cassandra Clare
Linda C: These Broken Stars by Amie Kaufman, 5✮, 26/09/2018, Review
Sandra: Secrets in Death by J.D. Robb, 4✮, 25/09/2018, Review
Valerie: Vampires Like It Hot by Lynsay Sands, 3✮, 24/09/2018, Review


Shelf #7: Shifters 4/4 Stamped

Laura: Caressed by Ice by Nalini Singh, 3✮, 02/11/2018, Review
Linda C:Bone Crossed by Patricia Briggs , 5✮, 25/10/2018, Review
Sandra: Dead Man Talking by Jana Deleon, 4✮, 02/11/2018, Review
Valerie: Phoenix Unbound by Grace Draven, 4✮, 31/10/2018, Review


Shelf #8: Dragon 1/4

Laura: Hidden by Sophie Jordan
Linda C: Legend of the Highland Dragon by Isabel Cooper, 5✮, 04/11/2018, Review
Sandra: TBD
Valerie: The Dragon Warrior by Jessie Donovan

Shelf 7: Shifters
Date: 2/11/18
Rating: ★★★★
Review:

A cute cozy mystery. This is a multi-author series, and I already have them all.

Zoe, a meteorologist in LA, gets a call that her Aunt Sapphire has fallen down the stairs at her lighthouse and is in the hospital with concussion. Zoe drops everything and rushes back to Everlasting, Maine, which she'd escaped 6 yrs ago.

Not everything is as it seems. Looks like Sapphire didn't fall by herself and Zoe is determined to figure out what is going on as she wants Sapphire safe. Dane, the ex love interest was already remodeling the lighthouse and is eager to help Zoe any way he can. The lighthouse also comes with 10 cats who can communicate with Sapphire & Cornelius a ghost who can be seen and speak to women, if he chooses .... not to mention the freaky weather.

A well planned mystery, though I did tag the main bad guy from the start, but not the accomplice.

The ending was extremely abrupt, like about half a page, but we all knew where they were headed.

Shelf #7: Shifters
Book: Caressed by Ice by Nalini Singh
Finished: 02.11
Rating: 3 Stars
Review: I have mixed feelings about this series. I remember liking it and when I take the next book from the series I'm like thats it. In the end I did enjoy the love story and I like the books are related as the main story continues, but the love story is different. In this book the love blossoms between Brenna who is changeling and Judd who is a psy and was arrow. I enjoyed reading how their love story developed.

Completion Post - Shelf #8 ~ Dragon

Book: Legend of the Highland Dragon
Author: Isabel Cooper
Pages: 352
How it Fits: #286 on the list
Read: 11/4/18
Rating: 5 stars

Review: Mina Seymour, secretary to Professor Richard Carter, meets Lord Stephen MacAlaisdair when he visits the Professor. Mysterious rumors prompt her to try to learn more about him. But a probing tea with his cook leads to an attack by shadow creatures and a run into Stephen as his alternate form of dragon. In order to foil an act of vengence against the Professor and Stephen Mina agrees to stay as his secretary and keep their secrets while helping to locate the evil sorcerer. A mix of paranormal, fantasy and Victorian romance. Very well done.

Shelf #7: Shifters

Phoenix Unbound by Grace Draven
Rating: 4✮
Date Read: 31/10/2018
# Pages: 400
# Times: once

A tale of two slaves trapped by circumstances and birth by a corrupt empire.

Gilene is the offering by her village to burn and being raped every year as a flower of spring. Azarion is a gladiator slave forced to prostitute himself to a cruel queen. Azarion secures Gilene's help in escaping by blackmail. They do not trust each other and their courtship is a very slow burning fire.

It was a good story but not as good as her Master of Crows or Radiance book but I will look for the next book in the series.

CONGRATULATIONS, Cereal Killers!
You now have an updated BINGO card with a stamp on 'own it' and 'shifters'. 

[Your updated BINGO card can be viewed on page 1]

Good Job!! :D

Thanks Missy Steph :)

Yay!!


I'll be finishing my book today!

Before shelf call....

Shelves still opened as of now:

Shelf #2: Favorites 3/4

Laura: City of Fallen Angels by Cassandra Clare
Linda C: These Broken Stars by Amie Kaufman, 5✮, 26/09/2018, Review
Sandra: Secrets in Death by J.D. Robb, 4✮, 25/09/2018, Review
Valerie: Vampires Like It Hot by Lynsay Sands, 3✮, 24/09/2018, Review


Shelf #8: Dragon 4/4

Laura: Hidden by Sophie Jordan, 3✮, 07/11/2018, Review
Linda C: Legend of the Highland Dragon by Isabel Cooper, 5✮, 04/11/2018, Review
Sandra: How to Date Your Dragon by Molly Harper, 3✮, 09/11/2018, Review
Valerie: The Dragon Warrior by Jessie Donovan, 2✮, 07/11/2018, Review


Shelf #9: Urban Fantasy 1/4

Laura: Ghost Story by Jim Butcher
Linda C: First Grave on the Right by Darynda Jones
Sandra:How to Save an Undead Life by Hailey Edwards, 4✮, 11/11/2018, Review
Valerie: Magic Triumphs by Ilona Andrews

Shelf #9 ~ 7/11/18: Urban Fantasy
DIRECT LINK - https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...

Damn! I can’t decide between and !

LOL Good books to choose between :D

I decided to read for the dragon shelf. More than half way so I'll likely finish it tonight.

Then I'll decide what to read for UF.

Shelf #8 ~ Dragon
Book: Hidden by Sophie Jordan
Finish: 07.11
Rating: 3 Stars
Review: I had hard time getting into the book, but once I did it went fast. Its YA book with lot of action and teenage drama in it and also bit of love. I feel this book was darker then the other books in the series, but the ending was bitter sweet.

I'll be reading

I will read It is #54 on the list

Shelf 8: Dragon
Date: 9/11/18
Rating: ★★★
Review:

I enjoyed this first in series book about Mystic Bayou and all the different supes that lived there as well as humans. However, it wasn't as funny as I've come to expect with Molly Harper. World building & character development was good.

Jillian, an anthropologist, working for the League (a body set up by humans & supes a couple of centuries ago) comes to Mystic to study their way of getting along with each other so it can be replicated in other supe communities. At this point most humans don't know about supes.

Bael, the sheriff, a dragon, wants her gone so she doesn't find out the secrets of the town that they don't want the League to find out. However at the same time he can't stop thinking of her.

Then we have a couple of murders which coincide with interviews that Jillian has done and the townsfolk become a little wary.

In the end they find the culprit and have a satisfactory HEA.

I'll probably read the next one as I'm sure it'll be Zed, the mayor & Jillian's friend Sonja.

I see that all the reviews (aside from mine) for dragons are in. I’ll write mine tomorrow and request the stamp.

When we finish Urban Fantasy we will be down to one in the diagonal!! However to bingo, if hybrids is called we have to have all our called shelves finished. We are so close on our few open shelves that I am getting excited!

Shelf #: Dragon

The Dragon Warrior by Jessie Donovan
Rating: 2✮
Date Read: 07/10/2018
# Pages: 310
# Times: 2

I really tried to like this book but the constant internal monologue with their inner dragon (they do have a one track mind) made it so heavy and cumbersome that there was little story development. it is sad to say because the beginning of the series had nice world building.

I've only read the first one of those Val, and I remember liking it but somehow I haven't read any more of them.

I'm reading for urban fantasy & I'm really liking it :)

Shelf 9: Urban Fantasy
Date: 11/11/18
Rating: ★★★★
Review:

Grier Woolworth, 21, an assistant Necromancer, has just been released from supernatural prison after 5 years, having been accused of murdering her mentor Maud Woolworth. Grier has been pardoned and is hoping there won't be a shoe dropping, but she isn't betting on it. She had been sentenced to life and was drugged & tortured in prison, so she is broken and trying desperately to get her life back.

She is assisted by her haunted house Woolly, her zombie parakeet Keet & her best friend Amelie & Boaz, Amelie's brother & next door neighbours. Both Amelie & Grier work for Cricket doing ghost tours around Savannah Georgia, both love doing the tours & scaring the tourists. For Grier it is more a necessity as the Society that imprisoned her also confiscated all her assets except for the House, and she still needs to eat.

This is a much more layered story than I was expecting. The world-building is amazing, and everyone has secrets, and Grier doesn't even know hers but she's got some too. Ms Edwards trickles out information on a need to know basis, and you have to watch out for the little gems as they sprinkle down.

It was interesting that Necromancers are the ones who make Vampires, and they all suddenly become very interested in Grier, who seems to have a unique type of magic.

Looking forward to the next in series.

CONGRATULATIONS, The Cereal Killers!
You now have an updated BINGO card with a stamp on 'dragon'. 

[Your updated BINGO card can be viewed on page 1]

Good Job!! :D

Thanks Missy Steph :)

Before shelf call....

Shelves still opened as of now:


Shelf #9: Urban Fantasy 3/4

Laura: Ghost Story by Jim Butcher
Linda C: First Grave on the Right by Darynda Jones, 4✮, 14/11/2018, Review
Sandra:How to Save an Undead Life by Hailey Edwards, 4✮, 11/11/2018, Review
Valerie: Magic Triumphs by Ilona Andrews , 5✮, 15/11/2018, Review


Shelf #10: Kindle Freebie 1/4

Laura: Dark house: Experimente o terror by Karina Halle
Linda C: Once a Cowboy by Linda Warren, 3✮, 15/11/2018, Review
Sandra:
Valerie: Escaping Fate by Regine Abel

Shelf #10 ~ 14/11/18: Kindle Freebie
DIRECT LINK - https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...

Please check your picks to make sure that they have at least 200 pages, as some of these are novellas :)

I'm thinking maybe or

Hoping for the first one, but I'll let you know Val :)

I'm only halfway done on my UF book so I'm pleased that it's not a winning shelf.

I honestly don't know what to read for the freebie shelf.....I'm like... a queen hoarder of freebies so it will be a very difficult decision.
Generating list:

Completion Post

Book: First Grave on the Right
Author: Darynda Jones
Read: 11/14/18
Pages: 338
How it Fits: It is #54 on the list
Rating: 4 stars

Review: Charley Davidson is a grim reaper who assists the dead into the light. She has been able to see and communicate with the dead since birth. A few people believe her but most think she is loony. Her father and uncle, former and current police detectives, both do and use her information in solving cases. This story involves 3 lawyers who are murdered and show up at Charley's wanting to help locate their killer. Side story to this is Charley's relationship with a mysterious hooded character that seems to always show up when she is in danger, then disappear. Charley's sarcasm and wit keep the humor flowing. She is still learning the extent of her powers and duties adding to the suspense. I really enjoyed this and look forward to more in the series

Selection Post

Shelf #10: Kindle Freebie

Book: Once a Cowboy
Author: Linda Warren
Pages: 256
How it Fits: It is #378 on the list

I'll be reading:


I'll try to finish at least 2 books this week. I have had so busy week with school.

Completion Post

Shelf #10: Kindle Freebie

Book: Once a Cowboy
Author: Linda Warren
Pages: 256
How it Fits: It is #378 on the list
Read: 11/15/18
Rating: 3 stars

Review: Alexandra 'Alex' Donovan, PI, is hired by the Braxton family to find out if Brodie Hayes is their son who was stolen from the hospital 40 years prior. Alex tries to be discreet in getting Brodie's DNA but a match forces her to confront him with the news, putting his whole life in question. The difficult period of figuring out what happened, adjusting, and forgiving brings Brodie and Alex into close contact as Alex attempts to help. This was a fairly predictable story but well handled.